Greetings, my friends! Thanks for joining us! New Music Monday is my weekly show where I play new, free (free as in beer) music. You can download any track you hear tonight for free, and it's legitimate (no piracy involved). URLs will be posted in a Google Docs spreadsheet after the show is over.

Tonight I've got a nice selection of dance, electronica, some glitch-hop, ghetto funk, some drum 'n bass and a couple of new takes on old standards. I hope you enjoy it!

Ishkur:I'm going to actually listen in tonight, and I'm going to post here every time you trainwreck and/or make a bad transition.

But no pressure or anything!

/offer not valid if you play dubstep. If it's dubstep, I bugger off.//promise not to trainspot

I'm not a producer or mixer. I just host and spin the music, so don't look for anything special, and because it's "New Music Monday" I give a brief intro to each track with the artist and title, so the transitions aren't going to be what your'e apparently thinking. That said, I hope you enjoy the tunes.

Cyclometh:I'm not a producer or mixer. I just host and spin the music, so don't look for anything special, and because it's "New Music Monday" I give a brief intro to each track with the artist and title, so the transitions aren't going to be what your'e apparently thinking

If you spin the music, then I'm expecting seamless transitions like any sensible DJ. Otherwise, what are you there for?

Last week's set really opened my eyes to entire genres I had dismissed out of hand before even listening. I have a degree as an opera singer. I never thought I'd spend hours searching out Happy Trance, House, Dubstep and other Electronic. I only wish I knew more of the genres and performers, and knew how to find good free music.

What can I say - the electronica makes me happy. In a way no other music has before.

Last week's set really opened my eyes to entire genres I had dismissed out of hand before even listening. I have a degree as an opera singer. I never thought I'd spend hours searching out Happy Trance, House, Dubstep and other Electronic. I only wish I knew more of the genres and performers, and knew how to find good free music.

What can I say - the electronica makes me happy. In a way no other music has before.

Cyclometh, you are doing good in the world. :)

That's awfully kind of you to say, thanks!

I certainly make no claims to being plugged into any scene or anything like that . I'm a dumpy white guy in his mid-forties who likes this kind of stuff, but there's no way I could ever attend an actual performance by most of the artists I play on this show. :)

Most of what I find I dig up off of Soundcloud, Cavemansound, Earmilk, Hype Machine and a few other sites that I've just kind of found to come up with a good mix of new stuff that's got a lot of artist promos, bootlegs and freebies. I mostly just grab what I like when I hear it, and it tends to work out. I'm glad you've enjoyed what I've done so far!

Benevolent Misanthrope:Last week's set really opened my eyes to entire genres I had dismissed out of hand before even listening. I have a degree as an opera singer. I never thought I'd spend hours searching out Happy Trance, House, Dubstep and other Electronic. I only wish I knew more of the genres and performers, and knew how to find good free music.

Be patient. I will help you out with this someday. In ways beyond your wildest imagination.

Glitchwerks:We're just going to have to agree to disagree on it then. Labels like Exit Recordings and Samurai Horo are pushing the drumstep sound. Civil Unit is definitely coming from the dubstep side of things.

Civil Music is all over the map but has a fair number of DnB artists (and electro, I might add) on its roster.

But you gotta understand that I'm the type of guy you are allowed to get very very specific about these sorts of things. When I talk about dubstep, I'm not talking about the annoying brostep garbage that farts out of the Rotten Crew. I'm talking about genuine stuff like this. And my complaint against dubstep is the same as my complaint against minimal tech house: It's positively banal.

Now, Civil Music might be making a lot of interesting shiat these days, but they are not making genuine dubstep. Post dubstep maybe. Future garage, post garage, maybe even microfunk. But not dubstep. That ship has sailed.

Tuning in for a bit. I don't know my genres at all but I like a large portion of electronic music. I once had a conversation with a DJ friend of mine and we decided that all electronic music was "good" in a sense. Maybe you'll only listen to it once just to hear what somebody came up with. I guess that was back when we were a brotherhood.

jaylectricity:Tuning in for a bit. I don't know my genres at all but I like a large portion of electronic music. I once had a conversation with a DJ friend of mine and we decided that all electronic music was "good" in a sense. Maybe you'll only listen to it once just to hear what somebody came up with. I guess that was back when we were a brotherhood.

I know genres, sort of, but I tend not to get hung up on them. This show, in my mind, isn't a thematically consistent set- it's a sampler plate. I hop genres, pace, tone and style, but the idea is to expose people to new artists and music. I could do a full set of drum 'n bass or glitch-hop or deep house, but that's not as much fun as just finding a bunch of new stuff that's at least loosely related (in terms of genre) and just playing it to see what people like.